[Gonzosports]

List one (adventure) game that you love and it never caught on big, and you don't know why AND/OR a game you love that everyone else seems to think stinks.

I'll start:

I said one, and I really want to grouse for awhile how pissed I am when my the small group of friends I have who plays games make fun of Morrowind, but I can't say Morrowind because it's not (technically, I really hate these genre niche/limitations/small-mindedness) an adventure game and tons of people have played it, but it does bother me that some people think it's boring.


My REAL ANSWER IS:

The X-Files game. The old FMV one. I played it through it in one night without sleeping (only one other game did that for me and it rhymes with Hist), and I thought it might be the best game in the history of games. I called my friends the next day to tell them all about it. I couldn't get them in it, Gamespot gave it like a 2.5 score, and it was a disastrous commercial failure. I've never met anyone who's played it other than me. I promise you it was a great, great game.

I can't get it to run anymore on my PC or my fiancee's Mac and it bums me out. I still think it was just a terrific, fantastic, exciting game that captured the essence of being a pretty good X-Files episode*.

Your turn.





* I should mention I'm an unrepentant X-Files fan.

[Jadefalcon]

I quite liked the X-Files game, so that means you have no example left.

What about Spycraft:The Great Game?

[Mikane Zaprick]

Not that no else liked it, but I really loved Starship Titanic and... I gather that I'm not exactly in the majority.

[marshal99]

I loved the x-file fmv game especially if you are a x-file fan. What could be better than actually trampling around the x-file universe with real sets and real people , it's like you are in an tv episode with mulder & scully.

I got it for PC & PS1 , great to play it on the big screen TV.

Not to mention , in the game , you can actually get Mulder & Scully killed.

I also like psychic detective , the fmv game although reviews generally pan it. Cheesy acting but i sort of enjoyed the ability to jump into other people's mind and see from their perspective.

[D.C.]

I'm a huge fan of The X-Files Game too. Maybe you've underestimated it?

[Ascovel]

Mikane, I also really liked Starship Titanic, although I never managed to finish it.

My own propositions: The Labyrinth of Time - amazing atmosphere + lots of great puzzles, the Darkseed games, the Valhalla games (they were popular on Amiga, but the PC port went mostly ignored).

In addition, I sort of liked the cheesy and occasionally boring sci-fi FMV game with Tia Carrere titled The Deadalus Encounter, but I wouldn't really call it love.

[kostas]

Clandestiny!!

[AndreaDraco83]

Another one here who loves the X-Files game! I'm a huge X-Files buff

[Find Therma]

My vote would go to another FMV one - Black Dahlia.

Whilst it did seemingly get some good reviews it got a lot of really bad ones too. Admittedly some of the puzzles were a pain, but as for atmosphere - incredible! One of, if not the best of all time in that respect.

[colpet]

Originally Posted by Find Therma

My vote would go to another FMV one - Black Dahlia.

Whilst it did seemingly get some good reviews it got a lot of really bad ones too. Admittedly some of the puzzles were a pain, but as for atmosphere - incredible! One of, if not the best of all time in that respect.

The Black Dahlia is one of my favorite games. I've played it twice; the variety of puzzles was the best part for me.

Rhem (the original) is one of my top ten games that most people hate.
I thought it was challenging, interesting, and constantly mind engaging. I took my time, and after a while found that the environment was like a old familiar neighborhood - lots of passages, paths and doorways. A real masterpiece.

[HandsFree]

Apart from the weird finale, I really enjoyed Mystery of the Druids. Think I'm the only one though.

[Veovis]

Inherent Evil. It recieved awful reviews when it was released in 1999 or so, and it does have a few quite severe design flaws. Don't think many copies were sold. But I loved it. It's impressively scary for being a pure adventure game. The setting is the same as in the first Delaware St John game (same people behind both games) but Inherent Evil has a much better story and a much more adult tone and scary atmosphere. Highly recommended if you can find a copy and enjoy horror adventures. An updated version was released a couple of years ago with some of the aforementioned design flaws fixed.

Heard there's a sequel in the works. Hope it's true!

A more recent game is Flower, Sun & Rain which I really enjoyed but which few others seem to care for at all.

[LeisureSuitedLooney]

Zork Nemesis.

Everyone I (used) to know looooved Zork Grand Inquisitor, and hated Z:N. I loved it...the disturbing mystery, the time-travel, the ghosts and alchemy, the severed body parts(lol)....one of my favorite games EVER. Just a unique, weird story.

[Keregioz]

Originally Posted by Find Therma

My vote would go to another FMV one - Black Dahlia.

Whilst it did seemingly get some good reviews it got a lot of really bad ones too. Admittedly some of the puzzles were a pain, but as for atmosphere - incredible! One of, if not the best of all time in that respect.

Black Dahlia definitely doesn't belong in the category of "no one plays/everyone hates".
It's true that it's a little underrated though.

[Ascovel]

Originally Posted by Keregioz

Black Dahlia definitely doesn't belong in the category of "no one plays/everyone hates".
It's true that it's a little underrated though.

Yeah, it's one of my favorites as well. It is certainly much more loved by todays critics than Dreamweb - another classic in my opinion.

Also, Azrael's Tear is a brilliant game (and with great reviews) that unfortunately is very hard to come by, so not many people know it.

[Thirtysomething]

Dracula: The Last Sanctuary

I remember playing this game on Playstation, with a drug addict in his prison cell, when i was a guard in a small military prison. I'm not making this stuff up!..
The prisoner was a nice kid, but he hated the game. He'd never played an adventure before, only RPGs and the like, so i had to help him with most of the riddles.

[marshal99]

Originally Posted by Keregioz

Black Dahlia definitely doesn't belong in the category of "no one plays/everyone hates".
It's true that it's a little underrated though.

Agree that it doesn't belong to the category of "no one plays/everyone hates" , black dahlia was the pinnacle of the fmv gaming era , the largest fmv game around spanning 8 CDs , beating phantasmagoria's record.

[skeeter_93]

Originally Posted by Mikane Zaprick

Not that no else liked it, but I really loved Starship Titanic and... I gather that I'm not exactly in the majority.

I really loved Starship Titanic! I got it for Xmas one year...big box with a book and audio tapes. I couldn't finish it without the hint book, but that's nothing new for me *remembers trying desperately to read a Kings Quest hint book without the red cellophane thingy*

I'm not really sure what games I like that people don't like, but I do quite often read a review of a game after I've played it and found others didn't think it was as good as I did, or they noticed flaws that I didn't. Evil Under the Sun is a recent example, I thought it was brilliant!

[Find Therma]

Oops, seems I underestimated the popularity of Black Dahlia then. I had no idea it was so well received.

[marshal99]

I think of Black Dahlia as the last big FMV game as the FMV era pretty much start to die out by that time. Overseer , X-file game & Black Dahlia were the last of the FMV type games produced during the year 1998.